“But that was the beauty of this particular game. The moment you lost, you won.”

“Games are lost and won in your mind as much as they are on the field.”

“Of course you always had that detached quality as if you were playing a game without much concern over whether you won or lost, and now that you've lost the game, not lost but just quit playing, you have that rare sort of charm that usually only happens in very old or hopelessly sick people, the charm of the defeated.”

“For when the One Great Scorer comesTo mark against your name,He writes - not that you won or lost -But HOW you played the Game."Alumnus Football”

“The characteristic feature of all ethics is to consider human life as a game that can be won or lost and to teach man the means of winning.”

“They say it can't be won,The way the game is run.But if you choose to stayYou wind up playin' anyway.”